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The Test Drive: Chhandomay on Sun Product Reviews

Tuesday Sep 16, 2008

We have
launched Project Kenai last Friday.
The primary goal of the site is to host open source projects and
encourage collaboration on them.

Why Project Kenai? Nick Sieger, lead engineer of
the project, comments,
"We need to demonstrate credibility
in building on top of more
traditional LAMP/SAMP web stacks (not just Java EE); and we need to
show viability of Sun technologies and hardware for next-generation web
applications."

So how is it running?

From Tim's
blog: Project Kenai is using Sun Fire T2000
servers along with a Sun Fire X4500
(Thumper) for storage. OpenSolaris
Nevada 70b is the OS. Apache runs in front, using
mod_proxy_balancer to connect to multiple redundant GlassFish V2 instances
talking to a single MySQL
database. The main site is a Rails application running on JRuby,
deployed in GlassFish as a war file built with Warbler. Perl, Python,
and other various bits of Apache-based bailing wire help integrate
Mercurial, Subversion, Sympa (mailing list software) and Bugzilla into
the mix as well.